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HOW TO GET MY COURSE
Are you an organization or a professional who interacts with families of adopted children? Do you want to make better connections with these families? Would you like to learn more about Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)? We’ve developed a course for every professional person who has interacted with a parent or parents of an adopted child […]
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Our Course Is Finished
Our course on Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) has finally been completed. This course has been designed for Professional Power People – you know police, physicians, teachers, social workers, case workers or anyone with power over parents of a child with RAD. I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. Here’s the news of […]
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Letting Go!
This is the last blog I’m doing that mentions my daughter without mentioning her name. For the last 37 years, I’ve been living the nightmare of a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). I’m sure there are readers out there who can identify with this statement. Any parent with an adult adopted child that exhibited […]
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R.A.D. Behaviors and What Causes Them
Any parent of a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) will tell you their behaviors are almost impossible to live with. Those parents can give anyone who will listen a litany of behaviors and/or problems their child has. Most of the time no one believes the parents because the child is such an “angel” in […]
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Does Your Child Have Sexualized Behaviors?
Do you know what causes sexualized behaviors in an adopted child? Would you be willing to parent a child with sexualized behaviors? These questions pop up occasionally when I talk to families with children, they have difficulty parenting. The answer to the first question is that a child may have been abused sexually by a […]
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Christmas with a R.A.D. Child
Tis the Season for PTSD, triggers and other mixed-up emotions. Did I just describe your Christmas season? This has been my life for many years. When I was a kid, I loved everything to do with Christmas. My family just consisted of my mother, dad and my sister. We moved from Nebraska to Utah when […]
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Where Does Reactive Attachment Disorder Come From?
It’s really shattering when I read about parents’ rights to raise their children when the child has to be placed in foster care, which can last from days to when the child turns 18 and ages out. Twenty years ago, I worked with an advocacy group that was hired to review and offer suggestions on […]
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How to Be Proactive Parents of Children with RAD!
It’s always interesting how I sometimes get inspired to write on something that I feel is very important to families of children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). I recently had a conversation with a client who was absolutely terrified, angry and everything in between to discuss her child’s RAD behaviors with a group of power […]
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Adoption Disability: R.A.D.
The other day someone wrote me and asked if Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is considered an adoption disability. It made me start to think. I honestly think it should be considered a special needs disability. Children with RAD often have major learning disabilities. Their thought processes do not behave in understandable ways. It’s so surprising […]
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November – National Adoption Month
I’ve heard it said by many adoptive parents of children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) that they hate November because it’s National Adoption Month. Their dreams of a successful adoption had become nightmares. As an adoptive parent of a child with RAD, I sit in the middle of the discussions all the time. My birthday […]
My Adoption Life
The stories of my life experiences in adoptions
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HOW TO GET MY COURSE
Are you an organization or a professional who interacts with families of adopted children? Do you want to make better connections with these families? Would you like to learn more about Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)? We’ve developed a course for every professional person who has interacted with a parent or parents of an adopted child […]
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Christmas with a R.A.D. Child
Tis the Season for PTSD, triggers and other mixed-up emotions. Did I just describe your Christmas season? This has been my life for many years. When I was a kid, I loved everything to do with Christmas. My family just consisted of my mother, dad and my sister. We moved from Nebraska to Utah when […]